Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More strings its beads of action on the thin thread of a love story. The scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon-to-be-famed First...
...political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land from Old Bas, was an aristocrat. He brought slaves and blooded horses; pretty soon he brought a wife, who was a real lady...
...amiable, phlegmatic, intuitively shrewd young Roman Catholic recently and rapidly wooed a pretty, alert, decisive young Protestant who is every bit as horsy as His Grace-and in all England there is no horsier aristocrat or plebeian than Norfolk-the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 20, daughter of the 3rd Baron...
...deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing police. In 1934 he staggered Britain's bluebloods by declaring from his seat in the House of Lords: "This House...
...roof of the Hotel Bradofrd, presenting the Ziegfeld Follies star, Jena Sargent, in the aristocrat of floor shows "Autumn Days." Fifty gorgeous "Boots McKenna girls" are dazzling. Seven course diner, $1.50. Never a cover charge. For reservations call...